Joint Health and Safety
ErgoMed understands the value to your company of having an effective and productive JH & S Committee. Too often production pressure undermines your committee member’s ability to do the paperwork portion of the job arising from meetings or planned inspections. Lack of minutes, action items and follow-up can block the effective functioning of any committee.
Joint Health and Safety Committee Management
Provision of a qualified person to act as the recording secretary for your JH&S committee to provide accurate minutes, designate follow up of issues and prepare the agenda.
Documentation of issues discovered during planned inspections and arranging for their follow up and tracking until resolution.
Mentoring program for Joint Health and Safety Committees
Provision of a certified member, Dr. E. M. Gardiner Phase 2 certified, under the Occupational Health and Safety Act to work as a management member with your JH&S committee in areas of health and safety policy, planned inspection, accident investigation, hazard recognition and control, PPE standards based on your requirements, work refusal, confined space issues, designated substance surveillance and policy.
Downloadable Resources
- JH&S Committee – Terms of Reference
- Joint Health & Safety Committee Agenda
- Joint Health & Safety Planned Inspections & Recommendations
- Fall Arrest Program
- Lock out policy
- Confined Space Program with template and entry permit
- WHMIS Policy
- Hazard Risk Assessment Matrix
- Canada Safety Council
- Petroleum Safety Council
- Safe Communities Foundation
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- Technical Standards & Safety Authority
- Radiation Safety Institute of Canada
- Canadian Standards Association
- Canadian Society of Safety Engineering
- American Association of Safety Engineers
- Canada’s National Occupational Health and Safety Web Site
- American Industrial Hygiene Association
- OH&S Act Regulation 851: Regulations for Industrial Establishments
- RRO 1990 Regulation 1101 First Aid Requirements under the OH&S Act